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Science centres unplugged: The pop-up experience

If they don´t visit us – let’s go visit them! Find out what happened when four science organisations chose to be temporarily present in local communities, offering free, playful learning opportunities in empty spaces of under-served urban areas, partnering with community organisations. The results were low-tech, low-cost, flexible and fun initiatives that succeeded in engaging new target groups and offered great potential for social advancement. Be inspired by: the “Pop-up Museum” of the Boston Children´s Museum, bringing its mission and activities to a local community; “3-2-1-Ignition*” from Nottingham, exploring a new potential of citizen science; the “Knowledge°Rooms” of the Austrian ScienceCenter-Netzwerk, becoming valued spaces in migrant communities; and “Heureka comes to town” in rural areas of Finland.

Facilitator

Executive Manager
Vienna
Austria

Session speakers

Director of Programmes
Ignite!
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Consultant and trainer
Vienna
Austria

Session speakers

Director of Programmes
Ignite!
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Consultant and trainer
Vienna
Austria